Blended Learning: What is it and why do we use it?

One of the things that makes Career Coach Institute’s approach to training coaches unique is that we use “blended learning,” a variety of media – including our self-paced kit and online e-modules – to make learning more effective, more flexible, and easier for today’s savvy adult learners.

There is support in business literature for this approach as both a cost savings strategy and a higher impact training method. The American Society for Training and Development defines it this way:

“Blended learning integrates seemingly opposite approaches, such as formal and informal learning, face-to-face and online experiences, directed paths and reliance on self-direction, and digital references and collegial connections, in order to achieve individual and organizational goals.” http://www.learningcircuits.org/2006/September/rossett.htm

And it continues to point to the cost savings in its white paper this way: “Blended learning with a substantial online component resulted in annual deployment cost savings of over $20 million.”
The American Management Association offers white papers on the subject here: http://www.amanet.org/blended/insights.htm

We at Career Coach Institute have found that our students are diverse geographically (in 28 countries and counting) and in learning styles. Some are employed and learning coaching part-time; others are between jobs and can devote full-time to their studies. And everyone has conflicts come up periodically to the live teleclases, so our recorded mp3 files and podcasts are welcome make-up features.

Learn more about our blended learning approach to career coach training here:
http://www.careercoachinstitute.com/information-about-us.htm

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